Truth in Translation
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Truth in Translation

Accuracy and Bias in English Translations of the New Testament

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eBook - ePub

Truth in Translation

Accuracy and Bias in English Translations of the New Testament

About this book

Written with the student and interested public in mind, Truth in Translation aims to explain what is involved and what is at stake in Bible translation. It begins with brief treatments of the background to the Bible and its translation, the various approaches to translation, and the specific origins of nine translation versions in wide use in the English-speaking world today. It then proceeds to compare those versions on nine points of translation, ranging from individual terms, to difficult passages, to whole categories of grammar. The book serves to inform readers of the forces at work shaping the meaning of the Bible, to help in their selection of Bible translations, and to act as a critical catalyst for the improvement of Bible translations through more careful attention to the risk of bias in the translation process.

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Table of contents

  1. Preface
  2. Acknowledgments
  3. Introduction
  4. The Origins of Modern English Bibles
  5. The Work of Translation
  6. Major English Translations
  7. Bowing to Bias
  8. Grasping at Accuracy
  9. When is a Man not a Man?
  10. Probing the Implicit Meaning
  11. Words Together and Apart
  12. An Uncertain Throne
  13. Tampering with Tenses
  14. And the Word was . . . What?
  15. The Spirit Writ Large
  16. A Final Word
  17. Appendix: The Use of “Jehovah” in the NW
  18. Bibliography